Nintendo has been all in on remakes as of late and Shigeru Miyamoto addressed this very issue in the latest edition of Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu. Miyamoto defended remakes saying that a lot of younger people just haven’t had the chance to play the original games, so remaking them to be in a revised and visually enhanced state for modern formats such as the Nintendo Switch 2 makes sense.
“Some people might say there are a lot of remakes, but after five years, a lot of people have outgrown games and stop playing them. Young people today don’t have the opportunity to play games from 10 years ago, so remaking them to be more playable and releasing them again is a good way to meet the demand. Letting people know the original games also leads to future developments, so we’ve been actively pursuing that recently.”
That makes a lot of sense. If only playstation would listen, they need to remake ape escape instead of remaking the last of us for the billionth time.
Isn’t that what Nintendo Classics is for?